Hawaiianization refers to the taking of a physical product, word, or concept hitherto unrelated to
Hawaiian culture
The culture of the Native Hawaiians encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms practiced by the original residents of the Hawaiian islands, including their knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits. H ...
, and confer a Hawaiian form, quality, and character upon it through various means. The word and its conjugated forms are an increasingly popular
neologism
A neologism Greek νέο- ''néo''(="new") and λόγος /''lógos'' meaning "speech, utterance"] is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not been fully accepted int ...
, in the manner of
Anglicisation,
Africanization
Africanization or Africanisation (lit., making something African) has been applied in various contexts, notably in geographic and personal naming and in the composition of the civil service via processes such as indigenization.
Africanization ...
, and
Americanization
Americanization or Americanisation (see spelling differences) is the influence of American culture and business on other countries outside the United States of America, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, te ...
, and is most commonly used in matters of
etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...
and nomenclature. Consequently, it is used both to mean the transliteration of English into Hawaiian and also the general 'Hawaiianization' of anything. "Hawaiianization" also means to incorporate the Hawaiian culture, spirit and character to anything and to live the Aloha Spirit through life, love and laughter. It is also used to indicate the adding of Hawaiian instrumentation and/or language to a non-Hawaiian song; the adding of Hawaiian themes such as
palm trees, tropical flowers,
rainbows
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,
dolphins
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,
whales,
sea turtles, volcanic lava flows, etc. to textiles and artifacts: the adding of
papaya,
mango and/or
guava flavors to drinks and edibles; the adding of Hawaiian tropical flower fragrances such as
ginger,
plumeria,
gardenia and
tuberose
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to lotions and beauty products; the use of Hawaiian ideas in gardening. The word has started entering forms of popular culture and is frequently used as an adjective in its
gerundive
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In Classical Latin, the gerundive is distinct in form and function from the gerund and the present active participle. In Late Latin, the differences were large ...
form, "Hawaiianized".
Transliteration into Hawaiian
Hawaiianization can also refer to
transliterating words in other languages like English into Hawaiian. One process for doing so
[https://www.manasquanschools.org/cms/lib/NJ01000635/Centricity/Domain/171/Your_Name_in_Hawaiian.pdf ] is the following:
# Replace B, F, and P with P.
# Replace C, D, G, J, K, Q, S, T, X, and Z with K.
# Replace L and R with L.
# Replace V and W with W.
# Replace Y with I.
# Separate any consonant clusters with a vowel, usually A.
# If the last letter is a consonant, add a vowel, usually A.
# Vowels remain the same.
Examples:
* ''Brazil'' → ''Palakila''
* ''Gibraltar'' → ''Kipalaleka''
References
{{Cultural assimilation
Hawaii culture
Hawaiian language
Cultural assimilation